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1. What is love?

2. How does the Apostle describe love?

3. How does the illustration of the spectrum assist us to comprehend love?

4. What is the distinction between natural , or human love, and spiritual , or divine love?

5. What is the difference between duty- love ( phileo) and disinterested or divine love ( agapee) ?

6. What is the three- fold manifestation of the spirit of love?

7. How may we distinguish between true and false love?

8. What is the importance of this grace?

9. How is love attained?

10. Why is an ‘aggressive warfare’ necessary to attain unto love?

11. What is the relative importance of the early ‘gifts’ of the Spirit, and the spirit of love?

12. Why should love be the mainspring of all our actions?

R3166 col. 1 ¶4

13. What is the relation between love and purity of heart, and how may we purify our hearts?

14. How is love the seal or evidence of our begetting as New Creatures?

15. Why is love called ‘ the mark ‘ ?

16. What are the four ‘quarter- marks’ of the Christian race- course?

F187 ¶2 to 189 ¶1; F369 ¶2 to 373

17. How does the Church’s experience differ from that of her ‘Forerunner’?

18. What is the significance of love as ‘the girdle’?

19. How is love the ultimate ‘end of the commandment’?

20. How is love the ‘fulfilling of the Law’?

21. How is love the ‘law of the New Creation’?

22. Why is love called ‘the perfect law of liberty’?

23. How are the ‘fruits of the Spirit’ but different manifestations of love?

24. How may we discern the true fruits of the holy Spirit?

25. How is ‘zeal the measure of love’?

26. What is the importance of loving zeal and how may we cultivate it?